…that dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. Using surviving documentation and the authors' combined expertise, this discusses the American view of cinematic horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years between 1913 and 1929.
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In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the…
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Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.
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A combination of science and accessibility, this book is for both mathematicians and the idly curious, offering those with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. It presents a readable explanation to both scholars and non-specialists alike.
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…of dog owners, a much-maligned subculture, into mainstream society by tracing the history of the legislation. This book shows how a combination of science and politics, fact and fear, altruism and self-interest led to the adoption and enforcement of legislation that became a shining success.
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A study of Abraham Lincoln's political thought. It combines political science, history and political theory to offer a fresh perspective on Lincoln, his thought, and the politics of Reconstruction. It seeks to determine why the spirit that successfully led the Union through the Civil War was unable…
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Combining humanism and social science, the authors illustrate how youth organisations enable the young to link a sense of self beyond the mere labels of ethnicity and gender, to responsibility and supportive environments for work and play.
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Introduces middle school readers to the issues that affect the global society. Combining geography, history, science, social studies, and economics, this title examines the topics and their importance to the United States and to the world. It shows how the policies and actions of a particular group…
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…a series of thirty-one embroidered samplers by contemporary American artist Elaine Reichek. In these striking works, Reichek replaces the familiar sayings traditionally found in samplers with witty combinations of quotations from mythology, literature, science, art history, and popular culture.
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Combining public administration and political science approaches to the study of the American presidency and institutional politics, Justin S. Vaughn and Jose D. Villalobos argue that the creation of policy czars is a strategy for combatting partisan polarization and navigating the federal…
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The focus of this book is on the implications of necessary conditions for social science research, logic, methodology, research design and theory. It combines essential work that deals with the analysis of common errors and the proper means to analyse ramifications of hypotheses and theories.
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The focus of this book is the implications of necessary conditions for social science research, logic, methodology, research design and theory. It combines essential work that deals with the analysis of common errors and the proper means to analyse ramifications of hypotheses and theories.
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This is the first book to combine a study of technology, law and liberalism in American warfare. It provides a framework to understand the successes and failures of the US in the wars it has fought from the early days of the Republic to the War on Terror.
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This is the first book to combine a study of technology, law and liberalism in American warfare. It provides a framework to understand the successes and failures of the US in the wars it has fought from the early days of the Republic to the War on Terror.
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Here, more than 80 colour plates combined with concise descriptions offer a resource for the identification and study of these unique dual organisms, many of which occur well beyond the state's borders.
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…war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, combined with the U.S. Navy's culture of distributed command and the rapid growth of
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Few plant species have had as much combined scientific, public, and political attention as exotic Tamarix spp (tamarisk, saltcedar). 24 essays by 44 authors explore its biology, ecology, politics, history, and management, reflecting the controversy that has arisen around its "invasion" and what…
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How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garcia Cubas.
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How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garcia Cubas.
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…writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parcelling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick Chura analyses this seeming contradiction to show how the best surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil disobedience.
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…have shaped the region and its use, from early settlers and loggers to preservationists, year-round residents, and developers. This book includes a comprehensive account of the Pataki years, an era of conservation triumphs combined with unprecedented pressures on the region's ecological integrity.
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…Charles Eddy joined lawman Pat Garrett in a grandiose scheme. They would dam the Pecos River, build irrigation canals, and turn the area into an agricultural oasis. This book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals.
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A study of early 20th-century American conservation and the policies of Herbert Hoover. Challenging critical assessments of Republican environmental policies, the author finds that Hoover combined an interest in conserving the environment with a drive to rationalize the use of natural resources.
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In his carefully written text, geologist Paul Garvin has combined scientific facts about minerals with an appreciation of their history and beauty to produce a book that will appeal to scholars, collectors, and the general public. Garvin begins with a brief treatment of the origins of Iowa's…
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Withey's book enthrallingly combines true adventure, history and biography in the three Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook to show how, in the second half of the 18th century, popular interest in science and exploration merged to make possible unprecedented accomplishments. Photographs.
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…works but also to how political science works. La Raja brings together top scholars to write original essays across the standard curriculum of American government and politics, capturing emerging research in the discipline in a way that is accessible for undergraduates. Each chapter combines subs
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Combining memoir and political insight, Thomas Geoghegan addressed widespread cynicism about the US government, and explores what it means to be a "national" civil servant and a "local" politician.
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Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this book examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.
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The Canadian Annual Review is unique in its collection and presentation of the year in politics. The combination of the calendar and the text offers a superb, easy-access reference source for political events, both federal and provincial.
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…foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political bubbles helped create the real estate-generated…
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Single Stage to Orbit traces the interplay of technology, corporate interest, and politics, a combination that well served the conservative space agenda and ultimately triumphed-not in the realization of inexpensive, reliable space transport-but in a vision of space militarization and…
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Investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women's political attitudes. Combining a historical overview of the ways motherhood has been used for political purposes with recent political opinion surveys and individual-level analysis, Jill S. Greenlee explains how and when motherhood…
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…four campaigns in five years: two leadership races and two national elections. Through trial and error - and determination - they learned to combine the Reform Party's strength in grassroots politics with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising and media relations, while simultaneously…
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…four campaigns in five years: two leadership races and two national elections. Through trial and error - and determination - they learned to combine the Reform Party's strength in grassroots politics with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising and media relations, while simultaneously…
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Election 2000: aberration or paradigm? The essays in this innovative volume, combining scholarly and journalistic views, seek to place the extraordinary events of the 2000 presidential election into context with the trends of electoral politics before and after.
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Election 2000: aberration or paradigm? The essays in this innovative volume, combining scholarly and journalistic views, seek to place the extraordinary events of the 2000 presidential election into context with the trends of electoral politics before and after.
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An examination of the role of the legislature in the politics of democratic construction and consolidation in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay. Various contributors combine to show each nation's progress towards open, competitive, tolerant politics.
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…evaluation of the Internet in American democracy. The author places the contemporary information revolution in historical context. This was the first book published at the time about the Internet and politics to combine historical analysis, case studies of political events, and survey analysis.
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In 1994, the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. This book combines ten years of field work in Chiapas with historical and political research to provide a comprehensive history of conflict in this region and an analysis of this rural uprising…
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A personal account of the coming of spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia, in central Pennsylvania. Bonta's journal entries combine her own observations with the research reported by botanists, entomologists and other natural scientists.
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Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book combines all three young mens experiences of the Amazon, drawing heavily on their own letters and books.
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This work aims to help beginners recognise palms. It combines information on palm botany, geography, zones, care, cold and salt tolerance, with descriptions and illustrations which highlight specific features of the plant or of particular components that serve to distinguish it from its relatives.
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A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history by combining a complete historiography with the most recent research and trends.
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Comprising approximately 730 square miles and more than half a million residents, the Lehigh Valley is the third largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania. This work is a combination of narrative natural history, identification handbook and travel and hiking guide.
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Comprising approximately 730 square miles and more than half a million residents, the Lehigh Valley is the third largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania. This work is a combination of narrative natural history, identification handbook and travel and hiking guide.
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This volume is the outcome of a study of earthquakes in Central America. It combines information from felt effects and instrumental recordings to reassess the location and size of events since the start of the instrumental era. There are descriptions of more than 700 significant earthquakes.
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Combining interdisciplinary research with case study analysis at scales ranging from the local to the global, Confronting the Coffee Crisis reveals the promise and the perils of efforts to create a more sustainable coffee industry
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This volume combines aerial photographs and map-drawings of the American landscape with essays that explore how various cultures have forged the landscapes in different regions of the country and what the possibilities are for future landscape design.
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This title examines a variety of conservation organizations in the United States built on or close to trust principles, some government creations, some private, some combinations of the two, to explain how conservation trusts are created and how they work.
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This title examines a variety of conservation organizations in the United States built on or close to trust principles, some government creations, some private, some combinations of the two, to explain how conservation trusts are created and how they work.
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Offers a vivid portrait of Pennsylvania's CCC program. This work combines administrative history with portraits of many of the men who worked in the camps. It draws on archival research in primary sources and on interviews with former CCC men.
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Combining insights from semiotics and psychoanalysis, this study of Herman Melville's fiction attempts to address his large body of work, seeking to use both psychoanalytic theory and linguistics to forge a key to the mysteries of Melville's writings.
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A fascinating look at sharks in general and, in particular, the species inhabiting waters around the Hawaiian archipelago. Combining modern knowledge of shark biology with details culled from oral tradition, legends, and artifacts, Taylor provides a scientific account of individual species and sheds
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Explores the role of nature in the development of the city of Seattle. Combining environmental history, urban history, and human geography, this book shows how attempts to reshape nature in and around Seattle have often ended not only in ecological disaster but also social inequality.
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Climatologist Iben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would hit mid-America in December 1990. This study reports the reactions of those in the area, who met the news with varying combinations of preparation and panic, and the sustainment of preparedness when the prediction proved baseless.
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Climatologist Iben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would hit mid-America in December 1990. This study reports the reactions of those in the area, who met the news with varying combinations of preparation and panic, and the sustainment of preparedness when the prediction proved baseless.
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…supply across much of Canada. However, competing and changing demands on its use are leading to ever more complex political arrangements. This volume offers an integrated survey of that complexity, combining historical and contemporary cases in a conceptually-informed exploration of water politics.
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